The word that was translated as evil in the OT really means heartbreak
We have made it into something else that we imagined.
Jeremiah 32:35
Why Does God Allow for heartbreak to Exist?
So that we can appreciate the absence of it. We would be simple programmed animals otherwise.
And each of us has to be exposed to whatever amount makes us abhor it enough to stop every speck of it.
Daniel 12:10
Isaiah 66:23-34 all flesh and their corpses
Did God create heartbreak?
It is a feeling that He also experiences and does not like.
He is the first and only one who is able to cast it out of
Himself (i.e. Jesus). But we went the extra mile and created something else that we understand as "evil"
Exodus 32:14-15 - written on both sides, one clear, one secret
Revelation 5:1 - same effect
Is there a difference between predestination and omniscience?
Out of the infinite number of creation plans He could have initiated, He used the one that would give Him one pure human, all He really needs, which He considers a son, yet also righteously result in the restoration of all the others.
Deut 4:32 - ask from one end to the other
Why create humans in the first place, knowing (because of omniscience) that by giving them free will, they were going to sin?
If He had been happy with animals, which cannot fully understand and choose Him, He would have stopped with them. But that would be un-fulfilling. Your dog cannot appreciate you on the same level you appreciate your dog. It doesn't know or choose you. You need something you can become "one" with.
Genesis 1:27 - first, lock it in as a core understanding, then
Genesis 2:20
Are there some questions regarding the problem of heartbreak that we, as finite creations, can never understand or be given answers to?
It's conditional. Some people yes, some people no, and there's only this one chance for mutual victory.
Isaiah 45:1-3 - addressed to His annointed
Do you believe there is a difference between "natural" and "moral" heartbreak?
Eve committed moral heartbreak. Adam committed natural heartbreak. Each of us starts with one or the other. We either observe the potential for self gain and instigate like Eve, or we are afflicted and retaliate like Adam.
Genesis 3:6
What are those differences?
Eve withheld sex for favors, Adam got fed up and took it anyway, and assumed control over impregnation.
Genesis 3:15-19 - punishment fits the crime, eye for eye, tooth for tooth
What are some examples of "moral" and "natural" heartbreak?
Any contrived instigation vs. any emotional retaliation.
So when you read that God says He will bring "evil" upon someone, take some comfort and know that it really says He will bring heartbreak. For the purpose of illustration and correction, to all people.
He's a heartbreaker, but not "evil" as we have imagined it.
Entire book of Job - Two halves of one righteous man challenge God for the purpose of getting answers, and it isn't considered sin.
